{"id":156,"date":"2007-07-10T01:22:08","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T05:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/07\/10\/1800-guitarists-set-world-record-playing-smoke-on-the-water\/"},"modified":"2011-07-14T23:23:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-15T03:23:02","slug":"1800-guitarists-set-world-record-playing-smoke-on-the-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/2007\/07\/10\/1800-guitarists-set-world-record-playing-smoke-on-the-water\/","title":{"rendered":"1,800 Guitarists Set World Record Playing &#8216;Smoke on the Water&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--CusAds--><p>Now that would be a sight or should I say sound to hear! I hope that they were all in tune. I wonder how far they got in the song?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 5px solid white;\" src=\"https:\/\/feverishthoughts.com\/guitar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/smokeonthewater.jpg\" alt=\"smokeonthewater.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"175\" align=\"left\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, those crazy (and I mean that in a nice way) Germans just seem to love their hard rock and where the mullet seems to never have gone out of style.<\/p>\n<p>They had 1802 guitarists, ranging from 6 to 80 years of age, play this tune simultaneously.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c354d1e329b235f1862b41000f5a4d18\" data-index=\"3\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-3375789278566919\";\r\n\/* Guitar_inpost_300x250 *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"3631424768\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<!--CusAds-->\n<p>It happened on Saturday, June 25 2007, in the village of Leinfelden-Echterdingen in the German state of Baden-W\u00c3\u00bcrttembergwonder. 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